An organization is continually changing to maintain customer and market relevant. The changes adopting new technologies, expanding to new markets, and adjusting the service portfolio. Which is the…

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Options

• ATechnology replacement modernization
• BUninterrupted delivery
• CSourcing strategy
• DOrganizational resilience

• A
  16% (7)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  77% (33)
• D
  5% (2)

Explanation

Sourcing strategy is the correct answer because it defines how an organization selects, governs, and manages relationships with suppliers and partners - including contractual flexibility and alignment requirements that allow those external parties to adapt as the organization evolves its technology, markets, and services.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Technology replacement modernization) describes what is being changed (upgrading tech), not the mechanism for ensuring suppliers and partners keep pace with those changes.
• B (Uninterrupted delivery) is a desired outcome - keeping services running - not a strategy for managing supplier alignment.
• D (Organizational resilience) is about the organization's own capacity to absorb and adapt to disruption; it is internally focused, not a tool for governing external parties.

Memory tip: Think "S for Sourcing = S for Suppliers." Whenever a question asks how to keep suppliers and partners aligned with change, the answer lives in the Sourcing Strategy - it's the contract, governance, and relationship model that binds external parties to your organization's direction.

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